The previous model Everex gPC, no longer in stores due to "poor sales."

The second-generation gPC2 - available online only, and selling quite well there.

The Everex gPC2 and Cloudbook will only be avaiable online, due to lackluster brick-and-mortar sales

While consumer-oriented Linux has been on a rise of late due
to healthy sales of the ASUS Eee PC, and Dell which offers a range
of notebooks and desktops preloaded with Ubuntu on their
website, the store shelves don't quite seem ready for the March of
the Penguins to reach their desktops.

Wal-Mart, the sole brick-and-mortar retailer of Everex's $199 gPC, has effectively
pulled the Linux-based machine off its store shelves, citing a lack of
demand. Oddly enough, the in-store supplies of the gPC were sold out across the
approximately 600 stores that received shipments -- but Wal-Mart spokesperson
Melissa O'Brien stated that "This really wasn't what our customers were
looking for."

With competition in the low-budget PC market heating up in 2008, the lack of
licensing fees could mean that Linux will be found on many more desktops and
laptops -- but if the sales of the gPC are any indication, it may still be some
time before it gains a serious foothold in the mainstream retail market.

According to Net
Applications, Linux held on to only 0.67%
market share in January 2008. This figure pales in comparison to OS X which
commanded 7.57% of the market and Windows which continues to outshine all with
91.46% of the OS market.

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